This series features Volko Ruhnke's game system presenting guerrilla warfare, asymmetric warfare, and COunterINsurgencies around the world - in both historical and contemporary conflicts.

We get a lot of questions from players new to the COIN series about which series game is best suited to new players. We'd suggest you start with Cuba Libre, as it is the least complex in terms of systems, rules overhead, and game size/length. That will teach you the basics of the COIN system. After that, pick another COIN topic you're interested in and move on to that game.

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Play Andean Abyss today! The linked downloads provide everything needed to play the game with 4 players on line, using playtest versions of the rule book, charts, and a Joel Toppen VASSAL module. Or you can play with just 2 or 3 players using a simplified variant explained in the rule book. (The solitaire and full 2- and 3-player game system is not included here, pending further testing.)

Negotiation is an important tool in multi-player Andean Abyss. We highly recommend using our complimentar... (vollständige Beschreibung)

In December 1956, paroled rebel Fidel Castro returned to Cuba to launch his revolution with virtually no political base and-after a disastrous initial encounter with government forces - a total of just 12 men. Two years later, through masterful propaganda and factional maneuver, Castro, his brother Raúl, and iconic revolutionary Che Guevara had united disparate guerrillas and exploited Cubans’ deep opposition to their dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar. Castro’s takeover of the country became... (vollständige Beschreibung)

The latest volume in Volko Ruhnke's COIN Series takes 1 to 4 players into the Afghan conflict of today’s headlines, this time in a unique collaboration between two top designers of boardgames on modern irregular warfare. A Distant Plain teams Volko Ruhnke, the award-winning designer of Labyrinth: The War on Terror, with Brian Train, a designer with 20 years' experience creating influential simulations such as Algeria, Somalia Interventions, Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru, and many others.
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Vietnam, 1964. The most wrenching US engagement of the Cold War would be far more than GI versus Charlie. The conflict had set tribesman against nationalist, Buddhist against Catholic, mandarin against villager, and of course Northerner against Southerner—even among the communists. As revolutionary change burned through that ancient civilization, Washington would apply its armament and its operations research. To get out, the US counterinsurgency would have to mo... (vollständige Beschreibung)

It will be necessary “…to gain the hearts and subdue the minds of America.” - British General Henry Clinton, In his Campaign Narrative of 1776.

“It’s easier to crush evils in their infancy than when grown to maturity.” - British General Thomas Gage, March 28, 1775.

"It is evident the enemy mean to … oblige us to fight them on their own terms or surrender at discretion, or by a Brilliant Stroke endeavor to cut this army in pieces…” - George Washington in a letter to John Hancock, Preside... (vollständige Beschreibung)

Late Summer, 54 BC: In a series of brilliant and brutal campaigns, Caesar has seized Gaul for Rome. But not all tribes rest subdued. In the north, the Belgic leader Ambiorix springs a trap on unwary legions while Caesar is away. In the south, an ambitious son of the Arverni seeks to unite a Celtic confederation in revolt against the hated Romans. And what of the influential Aedui? Their republic appears content to shelter under Roman protection – but can they be trusted any further than any othe... (vollständige Beschreibung)

November 1st, 1954: On the eve of All Saint’s Day, armed members of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) arose in revolt across Algeria against the French colonial government. The authorities suppressed these first incidents quickly, but this date marked the beginning of an eight-year war that saw hundreds of thousands of casualties, widespread atrocities and reprisals, political and social turmoil, and the effective end of the French Empire.

"At that time all members of the assembly, along with the proud tyrant, are blinded; such is the protection they find for their country (it was, in fact, its destruction) that those wild Saxons, of accursed name, hated by God and men, should be admitted into the island, like wolves into the folds, in order to repel the northern nations. Nothing more hurtful, certainly, nothing more bitter, happened to the island than this [...]"